Government Thugs set fire to 14 election offices of the JVP

A communique issued by the JVP states a band of thugs of the UPFA has set fire to 14 election offices of the JVP and pasted posters of the UPFA candidate Shasheendra Rajapaksa.

The communique states:

“We express our disgust and condemnation regarding the attacks carried out by the government that is at the threshold of an election defeat.

During the past 48 hours 14 legally put up election offices of the JVP candidates for the Uva PC election have been attacked by thugs. The gangs of thugs that have attacked the offices have destroyed decorations and have set fire to them.

The attacks by the government escalate day by day and interestingly, most of these attacks have taken place in Monaragala District. Certain offices have been destroyed and pasting posters of Shasheendra Rajapaksa indicates that the attacks have been carried out by the government.

The well planned attacks carried out by the government, which is at the threshold of defeat, to sabotage the programme of the JVP that makes the people aware of the anti-social and undemocratic administration of the government should be condemned with disgust.

The JVP calls upon the people in this country, specially the masses in the Uva province, not to be intimidated by the sordid acts of the government but to come forward to defeat the violent, illegal politics of the cowardly government.”

The offices that were attacked are:

1. The office at JVP candidate Anura Kumara at Dambagalla Junction at Madulla

2. The election office at Burutha Junction at Buttala

3. The election office at the residence of Comrade P.P. Wijesiri in Monaragala town

4. Election office at Sella Katharagama

5. Kiriibbanwewa election office at Sevanagala

6. The election office at the residence of the candidate and Member of Pradeshiya Sabha Comrade S.P. Sirisena at Sooriyaara, Thanamalwila

7. 5 election offices on the road from Sevanagala to Thanamalwila

8. Election office at Haburugala, Sevanagala

9. Election office at Samajapura, Haburugala

10. Election office at Ranwaligama, Sevanagala

Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) in a media announcement had confirmed that election offices of opposition parties in Monaragala District have been attacked by thugs.